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Firebird, an emerging AI cloud company, launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia on Aug. 8, a facility built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure. The site gives developers, startups, universities and public institutions in the region the computing capacity to build and run AI locally, instead of relying on services hosted abroad.

Nikol Pashinyan, prime minister of Armenia; Zhaslan Madiyev, deputy prime minister of Kazakhstan; and David Allen, the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Armenia, attended the opening ceremony. AI factories are the foundational infrastructure of the AI era, providing the computing capacity used to train, fine-tune and deploy AI models at scale.

Building AI capacity in frontier markets

Firebird plans to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity in Armenia by the end of 2027. The company's ambitions extend beyond a single site.

Alexander Yesayan, co-founder of Firebird, said: "Our ambition for what we are building in the next 2 years or so is roughly 2 gigawatts of capacity around the world. We're very focused on merging into frontier markets."

The roadmap spans Armenia, Kazakhstan and additional markets. The Armenia factory was delivered in just over six months.

At this scale, energy efficiency is essential. The factory runs on the NVIDIA DSX platform, which integrates accelerated computing, networking, electricity distribution and cooling as one codesigned system. Firebird says DSX lets it run up to 40% more GPUs on the same footprint, producing more tokens per dollar and extracting more value from every megawatt of capacity.

Backing from NVIDIA and CoreWeave

NVIDIA intends to invest in Firebird, following an earlier investment from CoreWeave this year. The funding is meant to support Firebird's global buildout and its push to establish large, advanced compute clusters in frontier markets.

Schneider Electric supplied the electrical infrastructure at the site in Hrazdan, including medium- and low-voltage switchgear, three-phase uninterruptible power supply systems and rack enclosures. Vertiv provided the cooling architecture, combining chilled-water technology, advanced controls and Vertiv TrimCooler systems for efficient heat rejection. Vertiv's iCOM CWM Chilled Water Manager coordinates cooling resources centrally as AI workloads shift.

Early demand is coming from AI-native companies. Perplexity is working with Firebird to access high-performance AI infrastructure for its agent platform and answer engine.

Why this matters for IT and development professionals

For developers in the region, the factory removes a practical barrier: serious compute for training and fine-tuning models is now available locally. For IT professionals, the build is a case study in datacenter economics - GPU density, cooling design and energy delivery determine whether an AI facility can operate profitably at scale.

Deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers and built on NVIDIA's total AI factory platform, the site is designed to help Armenia's builders turn energy into intelligence and connect their work to the global AI economy.